The DP&TA ™ was developed with more than 7,000 chronic pain patients over a period
of 30 years by part former part time staff members of Johns Hopkins Hospital.

It consists of 72 questions with 2,008 possible answers. The diagnoses generated by the MCD Diagnostic Paradigm have a 95% correlation with diagnoses of former Johns Hopkins Hospital staff members.

In an addition to providing a comprehensive set of actual diagnoses, the DP&TA generates
specific and detailed treatment algorithms which begin with the least expensive and
invasive tests and treatments and progress through a series of increasingly complex
tests and treatments.

By following the recommended course of tests and treatments, a treating physician
can expect results comparable to those achieved at the clinic.

Like the Pain Validity Test, the Diagnostic Paradigm & Treatment Algorithm is available
on-line in English or Spanish.

Depending on the nature and number of the patient’s symptoms, it can be completed
in 15 to 90 minutes under proctored conditions at specially trained physical and
occupational therapy clinics through- out the US.

To address the problem of accurately differentiating individuals with valid complaints
of pain from ones who are malingering, faking or exaggerating, former faculty members at
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
developed a verbal test – the MCD Pain Validity Test™ – which was originally validated
on 796 chronic pain patients, with results published in seven peer-reviewed articles
in medical journals.

As documented in the most recent of these articles, the Pain Validity Test (PVT ™)
can

• predict which chronic pain clients will have moderate
or severe abnormalities on objective medical tests with 95% accuracy.

• predict which chronic pain complainants will have mild or
no abnormalities on objective medical tests with 85% accuracy.

The PVT has been successfully used without challenge at the pre-deposition, deposition,
and in trial in numerous cases in a variety of jurisdictions, in 8 states.

The PVT is available in English or Spanish and can be completed in 10 to 15 minutes
over the Internet in your office, in a doctor's office or under proctored conditions at specially trained physical and occupational
therapy clinics nationwide.